Posts by GrimJack

The Posse Comitatus act is under threat (if it is not already completely negated) by this administration. Consider that the military has been used as police (US Marines shot and killed a 14 year old with a .22 in Arizona(?) while on 'border' patrol in a drug interdiction - and they were cleared). I have no problems with National Guard or even reservists as they are under the control of their state governors.

To be honest, I am not comfortable with the norther Idaho survivalists, or the wacko militias but I will join them if I have to. I grew up in Montana (I keep repeating that like it means something) so I still have the guns I was born with. I am accumulating food and supplies and have route back home mapped out.

Unfortunately, I am 60 years and could not hike the 700 miles but I will die a free man.

Hi Experts,
If hydrons are passed in as high as light's speed in a helium gas chamber ? what could be the result ?

LI but only if you start with a Hydron of Triton. It would be a race between contact with HE and degradation (it has a half life of 12.32 years). Tritium is a waste product of heavy Water-moderated reactors. It is an inefficient form of fusion. Lithium needs 4 neutrons so the Triton which is 1 proton with 2 neutrons + HE which is 2 protons with 2 neutrons - LI which is 3 protons and 4 neutrons.

did I just answer a homework question?

McCain and McCain sound so much different - kind of disquieting.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEtZlR3zp4c&feature=related

Lighting one small candle, chases away a lot of darkness.
Where do you prefer to stand--in the dark or in the light?

I stand with my friends - fear of darkness is weakness; fear of darkness is fear of the unknown.

I prefer to stand where I learn.

Dave, I am ignoring you.

Would you consider this a 'lowrider' pc mod?

So do you call him elitist or uppity?
* If you grow up in Hawaii, raised by your grandparents, you're "exotic, different."
* Grow up in Alaska eating mooseburgers, a quintessential American story.
* If you have been married to the same woman for 19 years while raising 2
daughters, all within Protestant churches, you're not a real Christian.
* If you cheated on your first wife with a rich heiress, and left your
disfigured wife and married the heiress the next month, you're a Christian.
* If you teach responsible, age-appropriate sex education, including the
proper use of birth control, you are eroding the fiber of society.
* If , while governor, y ou staunchly advocate abstinence only, with no other
option in sex education in your state's school system while your unwed teen
daughter ends up pregnant, you're very responsible.
* If your wife is a Harvard graduate lawyer who gave up a position in a
prestigious law firm to work for the betterment of her inner city community,
then gave that up to raise a family, your family's values don't represent America's.
* If you're husband is nicknamed "First Dude," has at least one DWI
conviction and no college education, didn't register to vote until age 25,
and once was a member of a group that advocated the secession of Alaska from
the the USA, your family is extremely admirable.

"Beer heiress good, ketchup heiress bad"

No I don't - I get away with that because I am cool and liberal. I get to do it and you don't so there.

Well, actually you gotta keep poking me or I won't see it.

Or maybe your creepy rightwingnut is a valid, dispassionate description??

$ telnet barackobama.com 443
Trying 66.39.143.229...
Connected to barackobama.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
Connection closed by foreign host.
$ telnet johnmccain.com 443
Trying 64.203.107.149...
Connected to johnmccain.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
Connection closed by a real American.

I did not think I would have to explain this to anyone on this board but since someone actually dinged my (good?) reputation with this note

I just did my research on the server and it shows that it is located in arizona how is that foriegn?

Now, if that had been posted here I would have thought it a brilliant piece of Republican satire or if he had given me even a neutral but I don't think he understood the joke. Heck, I still hold out the hope that this is actually double, inverted poke at me - we shall see.

Please tell me that most Republicans actually got the joke?

The master is the farthest from the motherboard and the slave is the middle connector...

depending on how new the laptop is it could be SATA in that case you will need a computer with sata. is the connection really small or is it about 2 1/2" wide?

I am so embarrassed! Shortly after I wrote that, I pulled an hd out of one of my old computers to get some data from it and the cable was very clearly labeled 'Master' on the end and slave in the middle. I am sure I knew the correct answer but fell back on what 'seemed' right, sigh.

And why the rest of us may have to put up with concept of Lardmeister voting. :D

I am sure we can distract him enough - no, wait - it is you we want to distract. Look, Dave - over there, a bright shiny object.

Thanks for the response. You said 'depending on the HD.' What are the determining factors? Is there a way I can find out if it'll work before I start disassembling?

Does using the standard ribbon cable mean that I will have to disconnect the hard drive that is already in the desktop? Or will both be connected, so I can copy from one to the other?

you can buy a 'laptop-to-USB' connector kit that includes a hard-case. I dont know what that is - would it work with a dead laptop?

Funny, I actually read the data that comes off the drives collected in legal discovery.

There are usually 2 IDE connections on the motherboard; one cable connected to the motherboare can handle 2 hard drive - 1 master, 1 Slave - the slave being the farthest out from the MB connector. The second connector can handle 2 more drives; 1 master and 1 slave.

I used the phrase for wiggle room on the chance that I left something out. I really suggest that you try to get to the drive by using the ribbon cable - get all the data off the drive to a safe place before you do any playing ariound.

get all the pieces you need together 1 working pc; a ribbon cable with room for the drive - it should come together just fine - if it doesn't, then let me know - I accept private messages

Warning! this is a pointer to dethmetal and not for the weak of heart.

Happy Birthday to me (heh,heh - "I can't drink because I am the F&^$E&^%ing spokesman for a rehab center") - er, after the first bit, you can quit any time. But oh, man it's really addictive

Here is a cleaned up YouTube version

Taste the Magic!

Thanks Vegs - why didn't you just point to the scambusters website rather than post the garbage?

The pope can be considered partly responsible for the spread of aids in the 3rd world.

Or maybe not!?

Are you hungering for some chocolate cake but don't want to do all that work or eat all that cake? Here is a recipe for a 5 minute cake that is just the right amount - would use a small bowl in place of the mug but still....

A Jew, a Christian, and Barak Obama were on a boat in the ocean - Barak says "Hey, this joke isn't going to work -- there's no Muslim"

The problem lies between keyboard and chair

I was whinging about my worst day ever when I realized that one of my best days ever was in the same 24 hour period! I thought I would share it with you and hope you can share yours.

We had just climbed most of the way up Mount Rainier and were at base camp (Camp Muir, I think) making water (from snow). I was out finding 'clean' snow (half the people who climb Rainier each year stop at this base camp...) and I glanced out and there was almost the entire state of Washington laid out below me like a topo map - Mount Hood and Mount Baker stood head and shoulders above the rest of the world (or so it seemed). Then I looked over at the nearby cliff face and my shadow was surrounded by a 'glory' - the light from the setting sun warping around my body heat in the sub-zero temperature, bending into a rainbow around my shadow. To make the day even more memorable; I was one of the first ones up at 1am so I had time to lie back and look at the 'starry, starry night' - I don't know how I deserved 2 Maslow peak experiences in one day but... Hey, I turned 40 that summer!

Both Obama and McCain have extremely strong communist agendas. Restriction of personal freedoms, increased government power over both people and the economy, etc. etc.

Come on, duuuude - your talking Bush stuff now; all that is in the <poorly named> Patriot Act

Both are enemies of the constitution, though McCain maybe not quite to the degree that Obama is.

Pure cow pucky from you unless you can offer some support for this. So far everything you impugn to either or both are actually being done right now by the Bush administration.

Really the only difference between them is that McCain is a Christian and Obama a Muslim pretending to be a Christian.

Well, I have been wondering how you can spew this sort of stuff and I think I finally found the source of your outbursts.

It was all very proper "Does the gentleman dress left or right?"; without knowing what I was being asked, I answered "right" - fortunately, I guessed correctly.

One difference between Iraq and Korea is that the Koreans have not been at war for the past 5,000 years, and the arabs have.

The Arabs have been at war for the last 5,000 years? I would hope you have some sort of documentation for this. I can find references to Persian/Arab hostilities of that age (but can only vaguely be considered these groups) but since we are talking about Iraq which is predominantly Arab/Muslim, that could only be for the last 1400 years. Muslim vs Muslim did not start until the death of the 3rd Caliph; with his death, different factions chose different 'Caliphs' (the Arabic word for faction is shi'ah - look familiar?). Persians (Iran) are predominantly Shi'a; Arabs are predominantly Sunni (Saudi Arabia, Syria and so on). Iraq can be thought of as the frontier between Sunni/Arab and Shi'a/Persian worlds. This does not include the 2 other major Muslim factions - most have heard of Sufism which is sort of where the Kurds fall. Kurds are more of an ethnolinguistic group as there are Kurdish Christians, Muslims, and Jews. They speak Aramaic as their first language and also the language of the local majority (btw, the first mention of the Kurds was about 3,000 BCE.

Er, but I digress...
Um, this is only a rough approximation, okay

telekinesis has been demostrated many times througout time go and see for your self there are many famous psychic out there.view all the articles in mytelekinesis.com
many of them have other powers other than telekinesis such as pyrokinesis(ability to control fire)cryokinesis(ablity to manipulate ice)and much more!i myself is a psionist and is able to do aerokinesis(ability to control wind)like storm in x-men.if in appears in tv it does not mean it is not true.i am not asking you to believe me.decide for yourself

The Great Randi has a standing offer of $1,000,000 for anyone who can demonstrate telekinesis, dowsing, teleportation, telepathy, any of that 'psychic phenomenon' pucky. No one has managed to claim the prize and very few even have the cajones to apply. Until any of these 'powers' are demonstrated in front of experts that include professional magicians, it is just pucky.

Does Edward always talk about Edward in the 3rd person?

VI works on everything, twomers. It's omnipotent.

Look another chance to use my "editor of the beast' joke VI VI VI.

I just found the youtube video The Get Out Clause made - wow, bus cam, taxi cam, bridge cam - pretty cool idea

This is a map of all the streets and only the streets in the lower 48 states. You can almost see the beginnings of the world city. Farmland, mountains, deserts are known by their absence - come take a look.

That's not true -- war boosts our economy. <<snip>>
So in purely economic sense war is good and we need more of it not less.

I know that you are joking but I am going to respond as if you weren't for those who don't see the joke.

"War boosts our economy" is an example of the 'Broken Window Fallacy' - imagine, if you will, 'a vandal throwing a brick through a shopkeeper's window. The shopkeeper will have to purchase a new window from a glass shop for a sum of money, say $250. A crowd of people who see the broken window decide that the broken window may have positive benefits:
After all, if windows were never broken, what would happen to the glass business? Then, of course, the thing is endless. The glazier will have $250 more to spend with other merchants, and these in turn will have $250 to spend with still other merchants, and so ad infinitum. The smashed window will go on providing money and employment in ever-widening circles. The logical conclusion from all this would be ... that the little hoodlum who threw the brick, far from being a public menace, was a public benefactor. (p. 23 - Hazlitt)The Broken Window Fallacy is enduring because of the difficulty of seeing what the shopkeeper would have done. We can see the gain that goes to the glass shop. We can see the new pane of glass in the front of the store. …

@jbennet

>> goats can....also look up overstocking

when i say herbivores i am of course refering to natural ecosystems. i know that if an idiot want to let a million sheep eat grass which was meant for a hundred then only disaster awaits.

<<clip>>

on a similar note. that is one thing that impress me about the americans. they have realized that natural ecosystems cannot effectively support livestock. so they are planting stacks and stacks of maize and feed them to the cattle.

good thinking. a better quality animal is produced with less problems and if you look at it; more economically as well.

Unfortunately, feeding maize to cattle is a problem. Cattle evolved to eat grass/hay, they have 4 stomaches that contain various organism needed to convert what they graze into food. When cattle are put on a corn/grain diet, things go wrong. The first thing that goes wrong is the normal E. coli found in the stomaches of most (if not all) mammals is not able to perform its normal function of producing Vitamin K and keeping pathogenic bacteria out of the intestine - the environment is changed enough that the nasty version of E. coli (serotype O157:H7) is able to gain a foothold in their guts and then increases the risk of contaminating the food supply. The simplest way to clear this up is to feed the cattle hay/grass for the last 24 hours before slaughter; this actually clears the stomaches. For some reason, most slaughterhouses refuse …

My mother is 82 now and walks about 4 miles a day. When she was 76 she took the Grand Canyon tour, walking down into the canyon then down deeper into the area where there is a village, then walked back out (talking all the time, I am sure). She lives in Bozeman, MT and has climbed all the peaks between Bozeman and Yellowstone. Two hip and one knee replacements have slowed her down. I can only hope to be as active as I get older.

Elephants cannot sneeze.

I will need some sort of proof of this claim - all mammals sneeze.

A quick google (discounting the songs and kid's stories) shows this:
The Lubindas tried everything - beating tins, banging drums, lighting fireworks. Nothing worked.

This is where the charity Africa Now comes in. Farmers are given seeds to grow chilli hedges and are helped to make dung cakes laced with chilli oil, to burn at night! Why? Because chilli makes elephants sneeze! Mrs Lubinda could not believe her eyes. The elephants fled, and their crops were saved. What's more, Africa Now linked the couple to a buyer so they could also sell the chillies for a fair price.

Humans are the only mammal that does not sneeze through its nose.

Just discovered by scientist at the University of Michigan:
Fingernails grow about 3 times faster then toenails.

And what a blessing this is! Can you imagine all the socks you would go through if you had to cut your toenails as often as your fingernails?!

Is it safe for eyes to do a Laser Surgery and being freed from Contact lenses and Spectacles ?

I have altered my opinion somewhat - apparently there is a long list of risks for which you must sign a release for. Get your hands on that list long before you are invested in the decision to get lasered. With a 2% failure rate, read that list with care, picture your self with each of the outcomes, and only then decide if you want LASIK.

Depending on what your condition is there is also this Intacs - reversible corrective surgery. I saw a PBS special on this about 10 years ago and think this is probably the only way I would go for corrective eye surgery. Do your own research, if you are interested.

The company that produces the rings is privately held and I have no connection with them or their product

BIT torrent is illegal in the united states of america if you use it you are breaking the law.

I don't think we live in the same United States of America:

Adoption

A growing number of individuals and organizations are using BitTorrent to distribute their own or licensed material. Independent adopters report[5] that without using BitTorrent technology, and its dramatically reduced demands on networking hardware and bandwidth, they could not afford to distribute their files.

Film, video and music

* BitTorrent Inc. has amassed a number of licenses from Hollywood studios for distributing popular content at the company's website.
* Sub Pop Records releases tracks and videos via BitTorrent Inc.[6] to distribute its 1000+ albums. The band Ween uses the website Browntracker.net[7] to distribute free audio and video recordings of live shows. Furthermore, Babyshambles and The Libertines (both bands associated with Pete Doherty) have extensively used torrents to distribute hundreds of demos and live videos.
* Podcasting software is starting to integrate BitTorrent to help podcasters deal with the download demands of their MP3 "radio" programs. Specifically, Juice and Miro (formerly known as Democracy Player) support automatic processing of .torrent files from RSS feeds. Similarly, some BitTorrent clients, such as µTorrent, are able to process web feeds and automatically download content found within them.

Personal material

* The Amazon S3 "Simple Storage Service" is a scalable Internet-based storage service with a simple web service interface, equipped with built-in BitTorrent support.

Bittorrent is a free P2P file-sharing protocol (BitTorrent) - it is thought that it is responsible for a significant amount of traffic on the web. You need a client to use the protocol - I use Azureus. Here is a Wikipedia link. It is an incredible tool for passing around large data files and/or large amounts of data. You are not anonymous when you use a client unless you go through an anonymizer - the 2nd video is the one I am pointing you to - tracking.

Wow, what a huge load of crap. That guy does not seem to have paid any attention to the real world. If we had stayed out of Iraq and stayed in Afghanistan we might have actually caught Osama, we could have rebuilt the country thereby keeping the country from becoming the worlds largest producer of opium, we wold have sealed the main route for fanatics out of Pakistan - we had to let Pakistan fester with fanatics because we needed their airspace to attack Iraq which had nothing to do 9/11 which was the point of whole middle east intervention thingy. Pakistan has nuclear weapons and may soon fall sway to extremists who will have access to nuclear weapons.

We don't go around attacking the countries that disobey UN sanctions (the us, israel, palestine, and so on). We went into Iraq and bombed it into the 19th century. During the 1st iraqi war we bombed bridges, water systems, power systems, sewage and communications - we managed to destroy most of the infrastructure of a country that was one of teh most modern in all of the middle east - and did not manage to get him. 10 years later we go in and finish the job - there is no infrastructure left - except for the oil pipelines, of course. It takes 2 to tango, in order for Saddam to make billions illegally - there had to be politicians, businessmen, and corporations making tens of billions trading with him …

Chariots of the Gods is a very interesting book that tries to explain many things on Earth were actually created by spacement who visited here. It was the inspiration for several popular sci-fi tv series and movies.

There is actually nothing very interesting in CotG; every significant factoid mentioned in the book that was not an outright lie has been debunked - thanks for pointing to the wiki, rather than, say - pointing to one of these sites.

(digression) Here in Seattle there was an ice cream parlor in the 'U District' called DanKens - we used to call it Van DanKens - Ice Cream of the Gods. It was really, really good ice cream(/digression).

I used to visit some of these crackpot sites but they eventually began to run together - way too many bangs (!), weird underlining, and random capitalizations. I say "if any paragraph has more than one bang, they're a crank!!!"

(new digression) the British call bangs 'shrieks' - which I kind of like ie MATLAB GEEK: look right here you want a shriek so you 'shell escape' "(/new digression).

What really offends me is people who are easily offended.

The moment I post in some web master forum about renting signature link, I get many responses, but in geek forums like this , I do not get any response.
What are the reasons that geeks do not feel like renting signature links ?
Your thoughts please.

Wow! I sneak in for a quick peek between 12 hour work-days and I find a twit posting who does not understand what makes a geek a geek. We are here for community and our .sigs are to tell others something about how we view the world. My original .sig stated "Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice." This appears to be the case here. You seem to have no clue to what community is. You try to insult people with inane comments but get the wrong war and leave out the name of the country, then you try to insult them by explaining the insult implying they are too dumb to understand your superior wit but your world view is so far skewed from any of the members of this community that no one, in the end, really cares who you are. Your only reason for posting on this forum is to get your greed on. By bringing up Germany (eventually), you are trying to somehow - well, actually, I can't figure out where you were trying to go with that line.

Why don't you go back to your post where you are trying to insult jwenting with the …

My only contribution was "ur all dum"? That's not what went on.

I can't put a lifetime of thought into a post. But I put a thought or two into each of them.

Please point out just one thought that you have put into any of your posts

But because my thought is that Science and Religion are both looking at the picture in the wrong manner (much like Republicans and Democrats) ... and stopping their thought in that narrow channel of discussion, well, my thoughts don't fit in that narrow channel.

Please include an example so we might see what you are talking about - something concrete that you can point to and say - this is how science/religion is looking in the wrong manner -- it would also help to give us a concrete example of the correct manner

I would expect someone to say "Huh?" or, "What are you talking about?" or some such.

If you expect it of us, then why not share with us what you are talking about? We do not read minds so we have no clues to your argument or even if you have one

There's plenty in what I've written, but it seems you don't agree, so you don't want to respond or investigate.

There is not a single idea in what you have written - therefore there is nothing to respond to or investigate. State something. Make an argument (ie state your …

Wonder what kind of label they attach to a 2000 pound bomb?

If you can read this, you are too close

>Incorrect. As I understand it, there is quite a bit of historical evidence outside of the bible that supports his existence.

Actually, there is no historical reference to Jesus outside of New Testament and the new testament was written by 4 men, none of whom were even born until about 50 years after Jesus died. This makes for a pretty tenuous connection to history. There are no contemporary historical records that mention Jesus during the 33 years of his life and no mention of him after his death. All of the major political figures in the New Testament are referenced in histories, local documents, census records and so on - people like Pontius Pilot, Harode, Caesar; religious groups like the Pharisees (ya gotta wonder at some of my spelling) and Zionists and so on but no mention of Jesus or his crucifiction.

Then there is the question of what about the gospels that were excised from the new testament. It was Irenius around the year 180 of the Common Era who declared the 4 gospels (no more, no less). There are other Gospels - Thomas', Judas', Mary Magdalene's, and the Gnostic gospels.

But all this means nothing, religion is based on belief not on facts or history.

Actually there is a way to automate it completely. I found the site (http://www.nliteos.com/). I found it on one of the stickies here - a list of useful programs. Nlite will build you an image that you can burn onto a cd. Installs are start it and walk away.

Zachery, I think he means that his mom has aol - moms get a pass on using aol.

In IE, is Tools/internet options/programs/"Internet Explorer should check to see whether it is the default browser" checked?

I also found this in help:
To reset Internet Explorer settings

If you installed another Web browser after installing Internet Explorer and Internet Tools, some of your Internet Explorer settings may have changed. You can reset your Internet Explorer settings to their original defaults, including your home page and search pages, and choice of default browser, without changing your other browser's settings.

1. On the Tools menu, click Internet Options.
2. Click the Programs tab.
3. Click the Reset Web Settings button.

This assumes that aol can be considered a web browser
I hope this helps
GrimJack